Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f160.google.com ([209.85.217.160]:58823 "EHLO mail-gx0-f160.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757474AbZC2NP1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:15:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <49CF4161.6080401@msgid.tls.msk.ru> References: <87tz5ckfye.fsf@burly.wgtn.ondioline.org> <49CF316D.6040903@gmail.com> <87prg0k8kd.fsf@burly.wgtn.ondioline.org> <49CF4161.6080401@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:15:24 -0400 Message-ID: (sfid-20090329_151557_163508_C8984AC7) Subject: Re: soft lockup apparently in ath5k_hw_update_mib_counters (or ioread32?) with 2.6.29 From: Bob Copeland To: Michael Tokarev Cc: Paul Collins , Jiri Slaby , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote= : > Paul Collins wrote: >> >> Jiri Slaby writes: >> >>> On 03/29/2009 08:20 AM, Paul Collins wrote: >>>> >>>> After about two days of uptime with 2.6.29 I got this: >>>> >>>> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [swapper:0] >>> Huh. I see no reason for this to happen. I suppose this is a regres= sion, >>> which kernel worked? >> >> I had a previous instance of the problem with v2.6.29-rc8 after abou= t >> six days of uptime. =A0The kernel before that was 2.6.29-rc7ish, ran= OK >> for a couple of days. =A0But since I don't know how to reproduce it >> reliably it's hard to say which kernel is truly good. I think it's just an interrupt storm because we don't reset MIB interrupts properly (I think not all devices are read-and-clear). I already have a patch in wireless-testing to turn off MIB interrupts unt= il ANI is working and I CCed stable on it. http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-wireless&m=3D123725924404147&w=3D2 --=20 Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html